This anti-Trump protester uses the same mental gymnastics that a person with moderate dementia uses to deflect questions. Coincidence? I think not.

This young woman bearded an anti-Trump protester in his natural habitat (making a ruckus at the beautiful, pink Texas State Capitol building in Austin) and asked him to provide some evidence showing that Trump did, in fact, collude with the Russians. What the anti-Trump protester gave her instead is an endless stream of misdirection, confusion, obsession, and defensiveness.

I once spoke to a neurologist about his work with the elderly. As part of his regular examination, he would ask them such questions as “What day is it today?” or “Can you name the president for me?” What fascinated me was the fact that people in mid-stage dementia, whose minds were going but not completely gone, would not concede that they did not know the answer. Instead, he got misdirection, confusion, obsession, and defensiveness:

“Young man, I can’t believe that you don’t know what day it is.”

“Of course I know what day it is. I just don’t believe in wasting my time answering foolish questions.”

“The president? The president is that awful man. You know, the one who was involved in that scandal.”

“When I was your age, I knew who the president was. I didn’t need to go around asking people.”

“That’s a stupid question. I’m not going to answer.”

Tell me this: Is there any difference between this anti-Trump protester (or any anti-Trump protester) who, despite a year of nothing, is still trying to make the case that Trump and Co. colluded with the Russians and the average person gradually losing his mind to dementia? To my mind, the only real difference is that, while I truly pity those afflicted with dementia, I have nothing but disdain for the rabid, obsessed, irreparably stupid anti-Trump protester.

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We defend ourselves even as we disappear. We hide the deficits.
No surprise that this applies to the Left.
With them, the deficits are from cognitive dissonance rather than neural damage. Facts contradict beliefs and logic dismantles dogma.
And ego is the basis of the joke:
Are you familiar with [ethnicity of choice] Alzheimer?
You forget everything except the grudges.

IndigoRed

That’s my experience, also. I get it mostly from within my family. It’s hard being one of the few Conservatives in a majority liberal family.

Ken in NH

Let’s be fair. She already knew he was demented from his Howard Dean for President shirt. He probably has to look at the calendar on his wall every morning after waking up to remind himself it’s not 2004 any more.

MacG

Maybe he is high on coke ala Richard Pryor (Richard Pryor is a synonym for not safe for work or people of certain sensitivities)

A few weeks ago I asked my liberal friends on Facebook why they believed that Trump colluded with Russia and what would convince them that Trump did not collude with Russia. Never really got an answer. The responses from liberals were along the lines of “I can’t believe you have to ask that!”

And another way arguing with progressives is like arguing with someone with dementia: you can call them out on a lie/misstatement/untruth, prove it to them, get out the videotape or whatever, finally get them to admit they were wrong, and then the next day they’re repeating the lie and you have to correct it all over again. You can never really debate the substance of an issue because you have to spend all your time just setting out the terms, definitions, and basic facts.

This became so apparent to me with Tina Fey’s “I can see Russia from my house” statement. Some lib would disparage Sarah Palin with the statement; I’d point out that Tina Fey said that; they’d agree with me; next day they’d again accuse Palin of being an idiot because she said she could see Russia from her house. It should have been such a simple thing to correct, but once a progressive has created a narrative, actual facts don’t matter.